What's your computing history?

[Mike Fishcake]

Speccy 128k +3 (3 inch disks and everything!)
Amiga 500 (later upgraded to 1 whole megabyte)
Amiga 1200 (later upgraded to a 68030 CPU, 4MB RAM and a 500MB Hard drive)
Cyrix 133MHz PC with 32MB RAM, 1.7GB HDD, 2MB Video card
AMD K6-2 333MHz with 128MB, 6GB HDD, 8MB video card
Pentium 4 1.7GHz with 40GB HDD (later upgraded to 160GB and 80GB), 256MB (upgraded to 1GB) and 64MB Geforce 2 MX200 (upgraded to 128MB Radeon 9somethingorotherlowend)
The above is my current system, and I also have a 2GHz Dell Inspiron 256MB 40GB notebook.

[directhex]

main systems:

• (1989) Dragon Data Systems Dragon 32 - Microsoft OS/9
• (1994) AST Advatage Adventure 6066d (Cyrix 5x86 DX2 66MHz, 8MiB RAM, SB16, CDROM, 173MB HDD) - Microsoft Windows 3.1 w/ AST Works GUI
• (1998) Intel Pentium 133MHz, 16MiB RAM, ATI Rage Pro 8MiB, SB16, 8GB HDD - Microsoft Windows 98
• (1999) AMD Duron 750MHz, 640MiB RAM, nVidia GeForce 2 MX, Hercules Gamesurround Muse XL, 40GB HDD - Microsoft Windows 98
• (2002) Intel Pentium 4 2.26GHz, 512MiB RAM, nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200, Philips Acoustic Edge, 80GiB HDD - Microsoft Windows XP
• (2005) AMD Athlon64 3800+, 2048MiB RAM, nVidia GeForce 6800GT, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, 160GB HDD - Debian GNU/Linux 3.1

auxiliary systems:

• (2003) Intel Pentium 133MHz, 768MiB RAM, S3 Trio V64+, Silicon Image SiL0680A Disk controller, 2x 80GB IDE disks - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard
• (2003) AMD Athlon 1333MHz, 1024MiB RAM, nVidia GeForce 2 MX, HighPoint RocketRaid 100 and RR SATA - 2x 80GB IDE, 2x 160GB IDE, 2x 160GB SATA (RAID1) disks - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard
• (2004) Intel Pentium-M 1.7GHz, 512MiB RAM, nVidia GeForce FX 5200, 2x 160GB SATA, 40GB IDE disks, 2x Hauppauge WinTV Nova-T - Debian GNU/Linux 3.1

work systems:

• (2004) Intel Pentium III 500MHz, 768MiB RAM - Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
• (2005) AMD Athlon64 3500+, 1024MiB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200SE, 200GB disk - Debian GNU/Linux 3.1
• (2005) Intel Pentium-M 1.6GHz, 1024MiB RAM, Intel GMA900, 40GB disk - Ubuntu Linux 5.04

games consoles:

• (1989) Nintendo Entertainment System
• (1994) Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• (1996) Nintendo 64
• (1998) Game Boy Pocket
• (2002) Nintendo Gamecube
• (2002) Game Boy Advance
• (2002) Sega Dreamcast
• (2003) GamePark GP32
• (2005) Microsoft XBox

[Moby-Dick]

didn't know you'd surrendered to an xbox hexxeh ?

[directhex]

didn't know you'd surrendered to an xbox hexxeh ?

needed to play Jet Set Radio Future.

[Moby-Dick]

fair enough - was just looking through old posts in the hope of finding a " I hate xboxes" quote , but all I coudl find was stuff on Jet Set Radio

[directhex]

fair enough - was just looking through old posts in the hope of finding a " I hate xboxes" quote , but all I coudl find was stuff on Jet Set Radio

hopefully, what you'd find is a statement that i don't care about the platform, i care about the games - JSRF would be a game to care about

[noTHINGface]

ZX80 - build it yerself!
ZX81
ZX Spectrum - 48k ram upgrade (solder irons at dawn)
Commodore 64

then that was it for many many years.... Then

N64
xbox
and a couple of self build pc
and now A64 4000+, 2Gb, 7800GT for my gaming pleasures.

[Stoo]

Dragon 32
Spectrum +2A (it had a ram drive you know, and was dark grey/black rather than the lighter grey of the +2..)
Amiga A500 KS 1.3 1MB, modified to 1MB chip ram, later upgraded to KS2.04 + 3MB
Amiga A1200, upgraded to 18MB ram, 40Mhz 68030 + FPU, 200MB HDD (I think), SCSI, CDROM, ZIP drive, extra HD floppy, and a proper monitor!

PC which evolved the following way:
Cyrix PR200, 32MB Ram, crappy samsung 2GB hdd, Spider Tarantula 256k, PC Chips Mobo *spit*
Upgrade: Pentium 233 MMX, 64MB ram, Cirrus Logic GD5446 512k
Upgrade: PowerVR add-in card, 128MB ram.. MmmGLQuake..
Upgrade: Orchid Righteous 3D (PowerVR sucked)
Upgrade: Abit Mobo, AMD K6-2 400, 384MB ram, Quantum Fireball 8GB drive, ATi 2MB card
Upgrade: GigaByte mobo (ABit one got fried via a dodgy tv card)
Upgrade: More drive space needed, Quantum 13GB drive added, junked 2GB drive, moved to nVidia TNT2 Ultra
Upgrade: AMD Athlon 700, 512MB Ram, can't remember the name of the mobo manuf.
Upgrade: Changed mobo (old one wasn't stable with 512mb in) to ABit, changed to geforce2 32MB mx gfx
Upgrade: IBM 40GB drive added, now at 1GB ram
Upgrade: IBM 60GB drive added, Fireball given to a friend, Geforce 4MX 64MB
Upgrade: AMD SoA 2000+, ASUS A7N8X Deluxe, 1GB DDR
Upgrade: CPU death, jumped to Barton 2500+, ATi 9500 AIW (unlocked to 9700Pro)
Upgrade: Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-9, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, ATi X800XL, 1GB of Corsair 3200XLPT
Upgrade: Added another 1GB of Corsair 3200XLPT

Add in there various cases, psu's, sound cards, monitors etc, and that's pretty much it

Also have:

Apple iBook G4 1.2Ghz, 1.25GB ram, 80GB HDD

Console wise:
Sega Game Gear
Playstation
Playstation 2
Gameboy Advance
PSP

[jamena]

Spectrum 48k (rusting in a shoebox in an attic)
Apple Classic (not exactly mine as it was the work PC, but I used it quite a bit...)
Apple -something- (as above but with a reasonable sized colour screen)
333 celeron 4/8Mb SiS --> 16Mb TNT
1GHz Athlon, GF2 ultra
xp2400+, fx5600 to 9800pro
...and that's as far as I've got!

consolewise...
sega mega drive 2
...lasted perhaps a year (probably more like 8 months) then got sold to part-fund a bass guitar purchase I made back then. Bass still works fine

never saw much point in buying a console since, though I am following at the new offerings from the big 3 with some interest to see if any of them might amount to a wireless/networkable home entertainment centre...

[gedalia]

I vagley remember my dad having some basic computer with the original Flight Simulator on it which might have been a 286, but the computers that I myself was invovled with were as follows (minus any non cpu & video card upgrades):-

486 sx-33 - 1mb trident video card (failed upgrade to dx-100 as the mobo couldnt take it)
AMD K6-2 233mhz - 4mb ati card and 12mb voodoo 2
AMD Athlon 800mhz - 32mb Geforce 2 GTS (later upgraded to 1.2ghz duron)
P4 2.6ghz - Ati 9700 128mb (expecting delivery of a used 6800gt 256mb tomorrow!)

Console wise, well as follows:-

NES
Game boy
SNES
XBOX (primarly for media centre)

[Deadlight]

Blimey - I thought I was a jaded old duffer! Nothingface starts with a ZX80; what, 1978 was that? Coo! Nice to se a few oddities here to - the Dragon 32 was well thought of in it's day. Surpised noone owned (or admits to!) an Amiga 600. Anyone remember the Oric Atmos? Played with one of them - another 'orrible rubber keyboard.

Oh well - if we're doing consoles too;

Gameboy
SNES
Atari Lynx
Sega GameGear
Playstation (a blue debug station)
Dreamcast
Gameboy Advance
PS2
Xbox
PSP

I used to be a games reviewer. That's my excuse.

[Moby-Dick]

I do remeber almost getting a Sinclair QL , with twin microdrives , but there wasn't any software available for it !

[DavidM]

QL Chess was almost worth having the computer for

(I preffered the Scrabble myself though....)

[DavidM]

Dragon 32
Spectrum +2A (it had a ram drive you know, and was dark grey/black rather than the lighter grey of the +2..)

Hopefully not the +2B which was a cut down +3, with mangled compatibility ... and about 8% less ram disk space....

I preffered the first version - the pre-Amstrad model with QL style keys - complete with hand warmer on the right when my bedroom got cold...

[Yohji]

Not many at all really..

One of those really old laptop style PCs with orange screens, don't know the name.

500MHz Tiny with 128mb ram, onboard graphics. Ran EQ like a bitch

2.4GHz Intel Celron, 1gb ram, 9200 ATi graphics.

Now my current spec, 3000 venice, 6600GT etc.

EDIT:

Console wise:

NES, PS1, PS2

[Moby-Dick]

I preffered the first version - the pre-Amstrad model with QL style keys - complete with hand warmer on the right when my bedroom got cold...

The 128+ was fantastic , I remeber my brother bringing it home and between the two of us breaking the good old cheetah joystick within hours of loading up daily thompson